Inspired by 'Avatar: The Way of Water,' it's what you might drive on the extrasolar moon Pandora.
“You respond to your environment,” explained one of the movie’s producers, Jon Landau, in a teleconference. “If you walk through the world of, things change. You’re connected and respond to your environment. The bioluminescence, when you touch it then things react. And the car does that same thing in its environment.” See? There is a connection.
The AVTR is not based on any current production Mercedes, electric or otherwise, and uses four electric motors nearly inside each of its massive wheels. Each motor and each wheel can operate independently of the others, meaning the car crab sideways or turn almost within its own wheelbase. The battery pack eschews the current industry-standard lithium-ion for graphene-based organic cell chemistry, which can also be produced without using any rare earth minerals or other toxic stuff. And it’s recyclable. Mercedes projects that charging such a battery, with a capacity of 100 kilowatt-hours, could take only 15 minutes.
With an undeveloped suspension and tires built to look spectacular rather than ride smoothly, the AVTR sort of rattled around the studio behind a security golf cart. But the ease with which the car was controlled by that center wand was impressive. If the future is full of connected vehicles constantly communicating with one another, and artificial intelligence is around to keep things moving, a wand may be all that drivers ever want.
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